Megan Nutzman

Thanks so much! McLean was already on my list, but not Burnett. I really appreciate the recommendations.

I'm definitely interested in single book/article recommendations too, even if you don't have a reading list!

Jewish epitaph from Rome, written in Greek

Does anyone have a Greek epigraphy reading list that they'd be willing to share? We have a grad student who is interested in complementing their work in Latin epigraphy, and while I've done some work on inscriptions, I am certainly not an epigrapher!

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Thanks, Kelly!

Believe it or not, neither does Ohio State! I don't have my official PDF version yet, but I can send you my page proofs.

Thanks, Jeremiah!

I posted the wrong link when I shared my new article yesterday, so here it is again. Now available online, "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation."
www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/a...

It's publication day for "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation"!
www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/journal/e...

Congratulations!!

Ha! Definitely something to be careful about!

Thanks! I had several pieces of swag from my time at the Frankel that I used to keep in my office at ODU. When I unpacked my office stuff on campus here, I very quickly put those items in a bag to come home with me so as not to attract any unwanted attention!

Apparently Brutus’s identity is a big secret. I definitely felt short!

Picture of me standing next to Brutus Buckeye, the Ohio State mascot.

I won free tickets to an Ohio State football game at faculty orientation today. I should probably buy something red!

This is devastating. I am so sorry. You are awesome. I’m furious on behalf of you and your colleagues.

Abstract for my forthcoming article: This article seeks to overturn more than one hundred years of scholarship that has suggested that Asclepius, the preeminent Greek god of healing, was reputed to heal by touch. Previous scholars have interpreted a small number of Attic votive reliefs as depicting touch-miracles analogous to those attributed to Jesus in the New Testament. In light of epigraphic and literary depictions of Asclepius as a divine physician, I argue that some of these reliefs show Asclepius administering medical or surgical cures, while others represent Asclepius employing the physician’s compassionate hand (παιωνία χείρ). In contrast, Jesus is portrayed as a source of divine power, which he is able to transfer to a sick or injured person by means of a simple touch without any need for a physician’s techniques. Similar touch-miracles in the Septuagint and the Genesis Apocryphon indicate that antecedents for touch-miracles attributed to Jesus can be found not in Greek healing cults but rather in Jewish traditions. Keywords: Asclepius, Amphiaraus, Jesus, healing, miracle, touch, votive

A relief found at the Asklepieion in Piraeus, which shows depicts a reclining woman in the center; a bearded Asclepius stands at the head of her bed and reaches down to touch her right shoulder with both hands. Behind Asclepius stands Hygieia, and at the foot of the bed are positioned a group of smaller figures including a bearded man, two women, and a child

A votive relief dedicated by Archinos. The left part of the image contains two figures; the smaller individual, Archinos, extends his right arm to the larger figure, Amphiaraos, who holds the arm from below with his left hand while touching his upper arm or shoulder with his right hand. The scene on the right side of the image shows Archinos reclining on a bed with an attendant standing near his head. Coming up from behind the bed is a snake, whose mouth is open on Archinos’s shoulder.

Page proof day for "Asclepius, Jesus, and Healing by Touch: A Reevaluation," forthcoming in Early Christianity. Do the famous reliefs from the Piraeus Asklepieion and the Oropos Amphiareion (and others) show Greek healers conveying a cure with a simple touch? I argue that they don't.

My run-up-to school stress-dream rotation also includes classroom management/students won’t stop talking to each other. The irony is that at my last institution, this would have been a dream come true and I would have just let them talk!

Wow, that’s a major move! Yes, I’ll definitely be in Boston and would love to catch up.

Congrats on the retirement! I hope that you're enjoying it. Will you still attend conferences occasionally? I'm super excited to have landed here -- definitely not what I expected when I went on the market a year ago!

Oof — that is really rough. I didn’t realize that you had left!

Exactly. This is a good move, and we're excited about it, but I feel bad leaving colleagues with more work to do on what feels like a sinking ship. Good luck!

My former department lost 3 people in the last year alone: 2 tenured (including me) and 1 TT. There will be no TT or FT lecturer searches this year and no promise of any in future years. This is in addition to the 4 lines lost over the previous decade. I feel guilty about adding to these numbers.

Thanks -- this is a great tip. If I decide to subscribe in the future, I'll go this route.

I've never subscribed to the listserv, since it seems like I only ever hear about it when it becomes really problematic. For those of you who subscribe, do the benefits outweigh the drama?

Thanks so much for that reminder! I have it bookmarked, but had forgotten about it.

Thanks so much for checking! I was able to find a version of the volume that I need on Internet Archive, so I was able to figure it out even without getting into the LCL database.

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Is anyone having a hard time logging into the online LCL today via institutional access? I've tried it on a number of browsers, but each time the log-in seems to go through, only to have the content that I need still show as unavailable without logging in. I just need to double check a citation!

Apparently they don’t need to cut anything.

Assuming that I’m catching your reference! That scene gets me every time!

My father gave this to me and his father gave it to him and now I am giving it to you.